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Sarah - a self-confessed digital marketing geek - set up Pixey in 2015 as a Scottish alternative to iStock and Shutterstock.

Fed up with wasting her money and time on generic stock photography, she created an online marketplace for finding and licensing real-time Instagram images and videos.

She said: “The business has been growing steadily but this funding is huge for us and will move us on far more quickly than we could have otherwise. We can now bring in AI technology to effectively source images as well as boosting our profile in the US and Europe.

“We want to create a community with our photographers and provide a mixture of lifestyle and business content. Moving away from traditional staged stock photography, we supply real photos that are creative and more interesting visually.”

Fraser Lusty from Equity Gap said: “The stock photography market is estimated to be worth $3bn annually. Sarah has identified many areas where Pixey.io could grow and the company is already making headway in providing a creative service that benefits broadcasters and publishers.”